Two high-profile university professors who founded the Occupy movement that brought Hong Kong to a standstill in 2014 have been jailed for 16 months, in a major trial described as "vengeful" by former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten.
Occupy Central leaders, from left, Chan Kin-man, Benny Tai and Chu Yiu-ming enter a court in Hong Kong, on Wednesday.A third Occupy co-founder, the retired Baptist reverend Chu Yiu-ming, 75, was handed a suspended sentence on health grounds. "I would not say it is a nail in the coffin but a sign of the growing pressure ... the price of resistance keeps rising and the chance of success keeps reducing," said Bland, the author of the bookJudge Chan said prison terms had been imposed on four defendants because of their lack of remorse.
One Country, Two Systems was the Beijing pledge when it resumed control of Hong Kong in 1997. It meant the former British colony would continue to have a high degree of autonomy.